M.G. Quibria

The United States has virtually granted itself de facto control over Bangladesh’s economic relationships with the wider world. The agreement does, however, offer one significant benefit: Bangladeshi garments made with US cotton and man-made fibre would get zero tariffs in the US market.

The dividend is not automatic—it requires a healthy, educated, and productively employed workforce.

The consequences of mob rule are not only social and political, they are also profoundly economic.